Talk:Arabian Sea/Archive 1

Largest
is the arabian sea the largest in the world? hoorah —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.175.134.16 (talk • contribs) 16:05, 8 February 2005

Persian Sea
 every gulf has been named after its sea, persian gulf was named after persian sea or pars sea, the correct name is PERSIAN SEA , as persians call it daryayeh Pars wiki is wrong some one fix this missleading information —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.87.73.251 (talk • contribs) 21:57, 15 July 2007

"Part coastal Persia"?
I've changed the above phrase to Iran. The link to Persia didn't seem to be consistent with using modern or present-day names of present-day geographic locations. 4.243.206.153 07:31, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Queen of the Arabian City reference to Kochi in India

This is ridiculous! the source cited by the author of this reference is an Indian newspaper. Just because one country where the Arabian sea reaches (India) feel that one of their ports is teh "Queen" doesn't make it so. Kochi as the Queen of Arabian sea is vitually unheard of in any of the other countries where the Arabian sea reaches. This reference must be removed....I tried to but the page seems inaccessible due to some maintenance being performed or something...someone please do this virtuous deed and remove this ridiculous reference —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.98.143.43 (talk • contribs) 21:08, 7 April 2007

Indian Sea
This sea should be named Indian Sea since India has the most coast line not Arabian countries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:2C6:4403:42AD:99A2:E9B5:1949:BE34 (talk) 00:48, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
 * No. Bazonka (talk) 06:56, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Arabic name
Currently Bahr al-'Arab and Bahr al-'arab redirect here, and the first sentence says that this is the Arabic name for the Arabian Sea. But there is also a river in Sudan named Bahr al-Arab which sources say is also spelled "Bahr al-'Arab". For example, see: Bahr al-'Arab and Bahr al-Ghazal at Encyclopædia Britannica Online, As Sudd and Baḩr al Ghazāl at MSN Encarta.

From what little I know of Arabic, "Bahr" (or "Baḩr" more properly) can mean river, lake, or sea. So I wonder if something should be done about this. I realize the Arabian Sea is far more notable than a minor stream in Sudan. On the other hand the stream drains the Darfur region, so it may be of interest these days. Perhaps one of those "for the river in Sudan see..." blurbs? Pfly (talk) 07:13, 23 January 2008 (UTC)


 * This is a fine mess. There is going to have to be some disambiguating hing a dinga shimga done. And the article about the river is unsourced. I would tell you to go ahead and add the dab templates, but I'm thinking that Bahr al-Arab should be moved to Bahr al-'Arab or Bahr al-'arab (or even Baḩr al-A/arab). The first two options would require deleting the existing redirects, and you can't do that unless you are an admin (I can do it). I do want to be able to point to reliable sources for the form of the name. Any thoughts? -- Donald Albury 11:53, 23 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Heh.. I was planning to add a little to the river article and give a few references.. when I manage to get around to it. I was thinking of maybe adding one of those "for the river..." templates to the top of the Arabian Sea page. I forgot how, but I think I've done it before and it wasn't hard. As for redirects, I thought you could edit the link redirected to without being an admin. And I think you can move pages without being an admin, at least after something like five days of using an account. But not knowing much (anything) about Arabic, it's hard for me to have much of an idea about your naming comments. The NGA geonames source I mentioned seemed to use the same names and spellings (including variants!) for both the sea and the river, if I recall right. Maybe I'll ask for the Arabic on the language ref desk. Maybe transcription of Arabic into the Latin alphabet is too messy for a simple answer. In any case, I could add one of the little disamig blurb templates to this page, but am probably not up for the work of making a full-blown disambig page and fixing all the relevant links etc. Disambig work can be so tedious.. Anyway, I was pleased to see your reply this morning -- somehow I thought this was too esoteric a topic. I have no time today, but wanted to reply before heading out. Later. Pfly (talk) 17:05, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * If you want to move an article to a name that is currently occupied by a redirect, you have to delete the redirect first. Maybe the easiest thing is to convert the redirects at Bahr al-'Arab and Bahr al-'arab to dabs, i.e.,
 * Bahr al-'Arab can refer to:
 * Bahr al-Arab, a river in Darfur
 * the Arabian Sea
 * -- Donald Albury 21:12, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah I read too quickly and misunderstood. Or maybe I assumed one could cut and paste between an article and a redirect, though I guess that make link fixing a pain. In any case, your redirect->dabs idea makes sense. For now I just added a "hatnote" to the two articles. It might be non-ideal, but it was quick and I have to go to bed... Pfly (talk) 08:24, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Moving articles by cut and paste is a bad idea, as it loses the edit history, which the GFDL requires be preserved. The 'hatnotes' sound fine. Now that I think about it, a disambig page would be overkill. -- Donald Albury 15:01, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Parsyan sea
due to the fact that Indian, Iranian and Pakistani population who live in the coastal areas of this sea is more than its arab population, the name of the sea must change back to PARSYAN SEA  or INDIAN sea like it was before. even Indians ,Iranians ,Pakistanis ,Indonisians and Baluchis consist of 53% of those new arab state population. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.166.197.66 (talk) 22:59, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

As an Iranian Persian, I feel sorry for you. Historically, Arabian sea is tied to the Arab culture which moved slaves, spices and other things along the routes in this sea (Specially Yemenis were active in the trades.) As the language of the traders there was mostly Arabic (As Iranian's mostly traded by land), the Sea must be in fact called "The Arabian Sea". This has nothing to do with the legitimacy of the name for Persian Gulf though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.233.169.184 (talk) 12:06, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * What it should be called is irrelevant. This article must reflect what it is called. Bazonka (talk) 12:33, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Actual size
According to many sources its size is 1,498,320 sq km instead. Which is correct? 116.49.135.38 (talk) 15:39, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Bin Laden
Should it be included that this is the final resting place for Osama bin Laden? Adwiii Talk   21:41, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

File:Map of persia.jpg Nominated for Deletion

 * that is a very good useful map and had been published in Iranian public website and web loges and have no copy right. in Iran copy right is not applicable to the none private picture.

Adding Indian ports in the list of Major Ports
Hi Everyone , Can we add the following Indian deep water ports under the major ports section The above information is sourced from annual numbers from Shipping ministry of India - 2011 as well as American Association of Port Authorities ranking of ports - 2009
 * Kandla Port - 81.88 MTU
 * Nava Sheva - 64.29 MTU
 * Mumbai Port - 54.58 MTU
 * Mormugoa - 50.02 MTU
 * Cochin - 17.87 MTU

Wikikapil (talk) 05:02, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

File:Old map.JPG Nominated for Deletion
. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maahmaah (talk • contribs) 09:56, 3 April 2012 (UTC) that is a very good useful map and had been published in Iranian public website and web loges and have no copy right. in Iran copy right is not applicable to the none private picture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Basp1 (talk • contribs) 07:26, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The-Periplus-of-the-Erythraean-Sea. part 34- 35 -Persian gulf- Persian sea
 * that is a very good useful map and had been published in Iranian public website and web loges and have no copy right. in Iran copy right is not applicable to the none private picture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Basp1 (talk • contribs) 07:33, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

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